Teaching Plus

  Ghana

• Accra: 
Accra

Length of Position: 2 weeks,all year round

Description: Assisting teachers in schools with limited resources provides an engaging environment for educating children and teenagers. Your ideas, your energy, and your presence are exciting for students and invigorating for the teachers and parents. The students are full of curiosity about the world around them and they welcome your perspective. You are also a positive role model to youth who are often at-risk.

You will serve as a teacher's aide in subjects such as science, music, sports, and drama. You may also be involved in creative projects and non-classroom based activities which help create a stimulating learning environment.

However, assisting teachers of Special Education offers help to students with mental and physical disabilities that require extra attention and support. Your presence and support helps students build confidence in themselves and gain energy for new accomplishments. Volunteers are warmly welcomed by teachers who appreciate the exchange of ideas, and an extra pair of hands to work one-on-one with students.

Your work may be helping with educational games, sports, teaching life skills, and language and vocational training. Volunteers with experience in Special Education can also bring their skills and initiative to help create lesson plans and activities for the classroom.

Highlights: You don't have to be a teacher to take part in and enjoy our Teaching placements. Open to all volunteers, you really benefit the students you work with, while gaining valuable skills yourself. Placements are in primary or secondary schools and special schools. All our placements have one thing in common - a genuine need for conversational English or Math's practice. Most of our schools welcome volunteers who want to get involved in other aspects of school life, or run extra-curricular activities and after-school clubs. Alongside your conversational classes you could help with the following: Sports, Drama, and Music.

Aside from the normal placement in teaching in "normal" schools, we could also arrange for you to teach in "special" schools. For instance you could opt to teach the blind, deaf and dumb, amongst others that you may prefer. Volunteers with experience in "Special" Education can also bring their skills and initiative to help create lesson plans and activities. Your ideas, your energy, and your presence are exciting for students and invigorating for the teachers and parents.

Also volunteers can opt to be assistant teachers in the various teaching field. As an assistant teacher you may aide in subjects such as science, music, sports, and drama. You may also be involved in creative projects and non-classroom based activities which help create a stimulating learning environment. On the other hand, assisting teachers of Special Education offers help students with mental and physical disabilities that require extra attention and support. Your presence and support helps students build confidence in themselves and gain energy for new accomplishments. Volunteers are warmly welcomed by teachers who appreciate the exchange of ideas, and an extra pair of hands to work one-on-one with students.

Qualifications: Most of our schools welcome volunteers who want to get involved in other aspects of school life, or run extra-curricular activities and after-school clubs. Alongside your conversational English classes you could help with the following:

* Sports
You can teach football in most of our destinations, and teach children cricket in the rural communities. Everyone enjoys having a volunteer who is keen to teach English or Maths in the morning then get involved with arranging sports clubs and matches in the afternoon.

* Drama
Drama is a useful tool for teaching English. If you are a drama specialist, schools in most of our destinations will have a place for you. If drama is a hobby, a school play is an enjoyable way to teach and learn any language!

* Music
Many of our partner schools are keen to enhance their Western music curriculum. If you are a music student, it's an excellent opportunity to learn about world music, while teaching extra-curricular lessons. You can start a choir, arrange music groups, teach composition and raise the profile of the arts where you are teaching.

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Ghana Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work Independently or in Groups of 2-5

Application Process Involves:

• Online Application plus Application Assessment

Post-Program Services Include:

• Job and Internship Network

Dream Shelter Ghana's Mission Statement: Dream Shelter Ghana (Ghana) seeks to eradicate poverty and gender inequality, by initiating various community development programs aimed at alleviating poverty levels in selected underprivileged communities irrespective of sex and religion, but more into girl child education. Agricultural production is literally under threat, that is why at Dream Shelter Ghana, we seek improvement in the agricultural sector as one of its main strategy in empowering the rural folk aside from education. Also apart from agric projects dream shelter also provides volunteer opportunities in other areas of interest to the volunteer ranging from teaching to fashion and football coaching. It must however be noted that dream shelter volunteer program is also aimed at students abroad who would want to enrich their resume with overseas work experience.

Year Founded: 2007